A day since the disengagement [1] from Gaza [2] started, this is some of what is going on the Israeli [3]/Palestinian [4] Blogsphere:
On the Israeli side:
Smooth Stone writes a A message to the world [5] and says:
Well, sadly, the evil deed is done. The Jewish men, women and children of Gush Katif have been deported from their homes. Their fate is sealed. And, mind you, so is everyone else's. This is a message to the Arabs, to Arab government leaders, and to Arab supporters and their apologists who are orgiastic that Jews have been deported from their homes. No nation, other than the ancient nation of Israel and later again with the rebirth of the nation of Israel, has ever ruled as a sovereign national entity on what you claim to be “Palestinian” land. Jews are indigenous to this land that your greed and terror has gained you. Arabs are not indigenous to the land. Palestinian Arabs are not indigenous to Palestine. They are leftover Arabs, residual of another age…
Chayyei Sarah posts this photo under the title No Words Required [6] and writes:
This picture, which I downloaded from Reuters via Haaretz.com, will stay in my mind for a long time. It is a photo of a resident of Nissanit and two Israeli soldiers weeping as the community's synagogue is dismantled. May Hashem cause our strength as a nation to grow in proportion to the pain we feel at this moment.
Mystical Politics post titled The Other Uprooting [7] is quoting Danny Rubinstein of Haaretz [8], writes:
While many Jews today are mourning the evacuation from Gaza, we should remember that during the course of the bloody conflicts of recent years, approximately 30,000 inhabitants of the Gaza Strip have been uprooted from their homes. Entire Palestinian neighborhoods along the Philadelphi route in Rafah, at the edges of the Khan Yunis refugee camp, along the route to Netzarim and in the north on the edges of Beit Hanun have been turned into heaps of ruins by the Israel Defense Forces. The reason was an Israeli security need.
On the Palestinian side:
umkhalil says War Criminal Gaza Colonists Compensated/Palestinians Ignored [9]:
the illegal colonists will receive from 150,000- 400,000 in compensation from the Israeli government. Unfortunately, the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine don't receive any where near the amount of coverage, of, for example, fifty-nine year old Anita Tucker, the Brooklyn, New York native, and darling of the BBC's Hard Talk, also oft quoted in the prolific and sympathetic news stories about the war criminals. If only the fate of the indigenous people were portrayed on CNN and BBC, perhaps US taxpayers wouldn't be so quick to subsidize Israel's ongoing war crimes to the tune of three billion dollars annually.
While Laila (of A Mother from Gaza blog [10]) publish this photo with title Leave my land [11]:
“A young boy from the Siyafa village looks towards the soon-to-be evacuated settlement of Dugit”
She also writes under the title Disen-what-ment? [12]:
I don't know how many times I've said that word today. What does that mean anyway…and have you ever though of how many sentenes you can use some derivative of it in…we no longer want to engage with you…you are not engaging enough for our company..er..occupation….sorry, but the line is engaged with protester's calls at the moment…and I got engaged to all this madness while covering disengagement. I feel like my speech has a become a series of edited and re-edited sentences with all the same buzzwords.
Disengagement…freedom…access…prison..anxiety…hope.
Under the title Disengagement Riddled with Uncertainty [13] Rafah Note says:
Jedallah Al Haut explains how he bought the machinery from the clothing factory where he used to work in the Gush Katif settlement. He plans to establish his own business in Gaza once the Israeli withdrawal is completed.